AlfredPalmerwelder1 - A man in a welding suit and helmet welding
Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: scra... More
Rosie the Riveter (Vultee) DS
Public domain photograph related to Rosie the Riveter painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
WomanFactory1940s - Art Deco public domain image
Turret lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. Deutsch: Arbeiterin fertigt Flugzeugteile an einer Drehbank in einer Fabrik d... More
16-inch coast artillery gun stamped Watervliet Arsenal 1921
16-inch M1920 coast artillery howitzer stamped "Watervliet Arsenal 1921," Ft. Story, Va.
American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft...
American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft Company, give important help in producing dependable planes for their men at the front, Long Beach, Calif. Most important of the many typ... More
American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft...
American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft Company, give important help in producing dependable planes for their men at the front, Long Beach, Calif. Most important of the many typ... More
Arm detail, Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports2 (cropped)
"Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas. Cabbie Coleman, former housewife, works at western aircraft plant. Installing of oxygen racks above the flight deck."
B17F - Woman workers at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach...
Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17 bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later ... More
B17F - Woman workers at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach...
Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17 bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later ... More
Catalina PBY 1942 LOC 1
A U.S. Navy Consolidated PBY Catalina at the Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas (USA), in August 1942.
Center face detail, B17F - Woman workers at the Douglas Aircraft Compa...
Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17 bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later m... More
Chemical warfare protective clothing 1a34870u original
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Detail, Flexible performance of C-47 transport planes is due in part t...
A worker atop the left engine of a Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport airplane at Douglas Aircraft Company's plant in Long Beach, California. Original title: Flexible performance of C-47 transport planes is due i... More
Detail, Girl worker at lunch also absorbing California sunshine, Dougl...
Girl worker at lunch also absorbing California sunshine, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.
Detail, R-1830 engine on C-47 at factory 1942 (cropped)
A woman employee of Douglas Aircraft Company's plant in Long Beach, California in October 1942, being trained on the details of installing an aircraft engine. The engine is a Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp 14... More
Detail, With careful Douglas training, women do accurate electrical as...
With careful Douglas training, women do accurate electrical assembly and installation work. Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Ca.
F.W. Hunter, Army test pilot, Douglas Aircraft Company plant at Long B...
F.W. Hunter, Army test pilot, Douglas Aircraft Company plant at Long Beach, Cal.
Face and arm detail, R-1830 engine on C-47 at factory 1942 (cropped)
A woman employee of Douglas Aircraft Company's plant in Long Beach, California in October 1942, being trained on the details of installing an aircraft engine.
Face detail, Operating a hand drill this woman worker is shown working...
Drilling horizontal stabilizers: operating a hand drill, this woman worker at Vultee-Nashville is shown working on the horizontal stabilizer for a Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee (1943).
Face detail, Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports2 (cropped)
"Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas. Cabbie Coleman, former housewife, works at western aircraft plant. Installing of oxygen racks above the flight deck."
Face detail, R-1830 engine on C-47 at factory 1942 (cropped)
A woman employee of Douglas Aircraft Company's plant in Long Beach, California in October 1942, being trained on the details of installing an aircraft engine.
Face detail, With careful Douglas training, women do accurate electric...
With careful Douglas training, women do accurate electrical assembly and installation work. Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Ca.
Female worker detail, Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports (...
"Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas. Cabbie Coleman, former housewife, works at western aircraft plant. Installing of oxygen racks above the flight deck."
Female worker face detail, Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transpo...
"Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas. Cabbie Coleman, former housewife, works at western aircraft plant. Installing of oxygen racks above the flight deck."
Flexible performance of C-47 transport planes is due in part to their ...
A worker atop the left engine of a Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport airplane at Douglas Aircraft Company's plant in Long Beach, California. The engine, which is exposed without its usual cowling, is a Pratt & W... More
Flexible performance of C-47 transport planes is due in part to their ...
A worker atop the left engine of a Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport airplane at Douglas Aircraft Company's plant in Long Beach, California. The engine, which is exposed without its usual cowling, is a Pratt & W... More
Girl worker at lunch also absorbing California sunshine, Douglas Aircr...
Girl worker at lunch also absorbing California sunshine, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.
Girl worker at lunch also absorbing California sunshine, Douglas Aircr...
Girl worker at lunch also absorbing California sunshine, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.
Left face detail, American mothers and sisters, like these women at th...
American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft Company, give important help in producing dependable planes for their men at the front, Long Beach, Calif. Most important of the many type... More
Left face detail, B17F - Woman workers at the Douglas Aircraft Company...
Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17 bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later ... More
Left, B17F - Woman workers at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long...
Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17 bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later ... More
Operating a hand drill this woman worker is shown working on the horiz...
Drilling horizontal stabilizers: operating a hand drill, this woman worker at Vultee-Nashville is shown working on the horizontal stabilizer for a Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee (1943).
Operating a hand drill this woman worker is shown working on the horiz...
Drilling horizontal stabilizers: operating a hand drill, this woman worker at Vultee-Nashville is shown working on the horizontal stabilizer for a Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee (1943).
Pan American Union, Washington, DC in 1943
Organization of American States. Library of Congress description: "Front view of the Pan American Union, Washington, D.C."
Part of the cowling for one of the motors for a B-25 bomber is assembl...
Part of the cowling for one of the motors for a B-25 bomber is assembled in the engine department of North American Aviation's Inglewood, Calif., plant
Part of the cowling for one of the motors for a B-25 bomber is assembl...
Part of the cowling for one of the motors for a B-25 bomber is assembled in the engine department of North American Aviation's Inglewood, Calif., plant
Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports
"Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas. Cabbie Coleman, former housewife, works at western aircraft plant. Installing of oxygen racks above the flight deck."
Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports2 (cropped)
"Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas. Cabbie Coleman, former housewife, works at western aircraft plant. Installing of oxygen racks above the flight deck."
Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports2
"Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas. Cabbie Coleman, former housewife, works at western aircraft plant. Installing of oxygen racks above the flight deck."
R-1830 engine on C-47 at factory 1942 (cropped)
A woman employee of Douglas Aircraft Company's plant in Long Beach, California in October 1942, being trained on the details of installing an aircraft engine. The engine is a Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp 14... More
R-1830 engine on C-47 at factory 1942
A woman employee of Douglas Aircraft Company's plant in Long Beach, California in October 1942, being trained on the details of installing an aircraft engine. The engine is a Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp 14... More
Right face detail, American mothers and sisters, like these women at t...
American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft Company, give important help in producing dependable planes for their men at the front, Long Beach, Calif. Most important of the many typ... More
Right face detail, B17F - Woman workers at the Douglas Aircraft Compan...
Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17 bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later m... More
Right, B17F - Woman workers at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Lon...
Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17 bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later ... More
Riveting team2 (cropped)
Riveting team working on the cockpit shell of a C-47 transport at the plant of North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, California, Calif. 1 transparency : color
Riveting team2 - A man and a woman in a plane looking at something
Riveting team working on the cockpit shell of a C-47 transport at the plant of North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, California, Calif. 1 transparency : color
Steps of the Pan American Building, Washington, D.C. (LOC)
Steps of the Pan American Building, Washington, D.C.
With careful Douglas training, women do accurate electrical assembly a...
With careful Douglas training, women do accurate electrical assembly and installation work. Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Ca.
With careful Douglas training, women do accurate electrical assembly a...
With careful Douglas training, women do accurate electrical assembly and installation work. Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Ca.
Woman worker (left), American mothers and sisters, like these women at...
American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft Company, give important help in producing dependable planes for their men at the front, Long Beach, Calif. Most important of the many typ... More
Woman worker (right), American mothers and sisters, like these women a...
American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft Company, give important help in producing dependable planes for their men at the front, Long Beach, Calif. Most important of the many typ... More
Woman worker Face detail, Working with the electric wiring at Douglas ...
Working with the electric wiring at Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (1942).
Women become skilled shop technicians after careful training in the sc...
Women become skilled shop technicians after careful training in the school at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif. (1942).
Women from all fields have joined the production army, Corpus Christi,...
Women from all fields have joined the production army, Corpus Christi, Texas. Miss Grace Weaver, a civil service worker at the Naval Air Base, and a school teacher before the war, paints the American insignia ... More
Workers on the Liberator Bombers, Consolidated Aircraft Corp fsac.1a34...
Public domain photograph of a crowd, event, meeting, demonstration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Working with the electric wiring at Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Bea...
Working with the electric wiring at Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (1942).
"37" "NORTH AMERICAN AVIATION, INC." "808" badge detail of employee nu...
Clerk in one of the stock rooms of North American Aviation, Inc., checking to see if the proper numbers of parts were received and placed in the proper bin, Inglewood, Calif. This plant produces the B-25 ("Bi... More
"Consolidated Aircraft" patch detail, A mechanic greasing a landing ge...
A hydraulic mechanic greasing the landing gear of a transport plane, before the plane leaves the last station on the assembly line at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas
1943 Illinois Centrail Rail Yard
Trucks unloading at the inbound freight house of the Illinois Central Railroad, South Water Street freight terminal, Chicago, Ill. (Wrigley Building and Tribune Tower in background).
1a35356vWomen workers B-17F
Title: Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17F bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later ... More
333 North Michigan from Illinois Railroad Freight yard
Diesel switch engineer moving freight cars at the South Water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Ill. The N.Y. Central is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities from th... More
A candid view of one of the women workers touching up the U.S. Army Ai...
Title: A candid view of one of the women workers touching up the U.S. Army Air Forces insignia on the side of the fuselage of a "Vengeance" dive bomber manufactured at Vultee's Nashville division, Tennessee Ab... More
A Chicago and Northwestern railroad roundhouse 1a34621v
Title: A Chicago and Northwestern railroad roundhouse, Chicago, Ill.
A carpenter at the TVA's new Douglas dam on the French Broad River, Te...
Title: A carpenter at the TVA's new Douglas dam on the French Broad River, Tenn. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet ong, with a 31,600-acre reservoir area extending 43 miles upstream. With a useful ... More
A Coast Guard sentry stands watch over a new torpedo boat under constr...
A Coast Guard sentry stands watch over a new torpedo boat under construction at a southern shipyard. In addition to wooden torpedo boats, the yard also turns out many steel boats for the Navy. Higgins Industri... More
A completely overhauled engine on the transfer table 1a34735v
Title: A completely overhauled engine on the transfer table at the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad locomotive shops, Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is now ready to go into service
A completely overhauled engine on the transfer table at the Atchison, ...
Title: A completely overhauled engine on the transfer table at the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad locomotive shops, Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is now ready to go into service
A east bound Union Pacific railroad freight train waiting in a siding,...
Title: A east bound Union Pacific railroad freight train waiting in a siding, Alray, Calif. Coming up through Cajon Pass. The Santa Fe tracks are used by the Union Pacific as far east as Daggett, Calif. Santa ... More
A fast, hard-hitting new A-20 (i.e., B-25) attack bomber is brought fo...
Title: A fast, hard-hitting new A-20 [i.e., B-25] attack bomber is brought for a test hop to the flight line at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company Abstract/medium: 1 transparency : color.
A fast, hard-hitting new A-20 1a35354v
Title: A fast, hard-hitting new A-20 [i.e., B-25] attack bomber is brought for a test hop to the flight line at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company Creator(s): Palmer, Alfred T., photograp... More
A freight train stopping for coal and water at a siding enroute to Gal...
Title: A freight train stopping for coal and water at a siding enroute to Gallup, New Mexico, near Laguna, N.M.
A general view of a classification yard at C & NW RR1a34637v
Title: A general view of a classification yard at C & NW RR's Proviso(?) yard, Chicago, Ill.
A general view of a classification yard at C & NW RR 1a34622v
Title: A general view of a classification yard at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.
A girl riveting machine operator at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant...
Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F bomber is a later model of the B-17, which distinguished itself in action in the south Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude, he... More
A girl riveting machine operator at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant...
Title: A girl riveting machine operator at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant joins sections of wing ribs to reinforce the inner wing assemblies of B-17F heavy bombers, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "... More
A girl riveting machine operator at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant...
Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F bomber is a later model of the B-17, which distinguished itself in action in the south Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude, he... More
A good job in the air cleaner of an army truck, Fort Knox, Ky. 1a35222...
Title: A good job in the air cleaner of an army truck, Fort Knox, Ky. This Negro soldier, who serves as truckdriver and mechanic, plays an important part in keeping army transport fleets in operation
A good job in the air cleaner of an army truck, Fort Knox, Ky
A good job in the air cleaner of an army truck, Fort Knox, Ky. This soldier, who serves as truckdriver and mechanic, plays an important part in keeping army transport fleets in operation
A hydraulic mechanic greasing the landing gear of a transport1a34930v
Title: A hydraulic mechanic greasing the landing gear of a transport, before the plane leaves the last station on the assembly line at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas
A hydraulic mechanic greasing the landing gear of a transport1a34930v ...
Title: A hydraulic mechanic greasing the landing gear of a transport, before the plane leaves the last station on the assembly line at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas
A large electric phosphate smelting furnace 1a35274v
Title: A large electric phosphate smelting furnace used in the making of elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area, Alabama
A lathe operator machining parts for transport planes 1a34944v
Title: A lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas
A large electric phosphate smelting furnace used to make elemental pho...
Title: A large electric phosphate smelting furnace used to make elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Ala. Abstract/medium: 1 transparency : color.
A large electric phosphate smelting furnace used to make elemental pho...
A large electric phosphate smelting furnace used to make elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Ala.
A Marine Corps glider being towed by a power plane from Page Field 1a3...
Title: A Marine Corps glider being towed by a power plane from Page Field, at Parris Island, S.C.
A marine Lieutenant, glider pilot in training at Page Field1a35146v (c...
Title: A marine Lieutenant, glider pilot in training at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C.
A marine glider pilot in training, a lieutenant, at Page Field1a35148v
Title: A marine glider pilot in training, a lieutenant, at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C.
A marine glider pilot in training, a lieutenant, at Page Field1a35148v...
Title: A marine glider pilot in training, a lieutenant, at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C.
A marine Lieutenant, glider pilot in training at Page Field1a35146v
Title: A marine Lieutenant, glider pilot in training at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C.
A mechanic greasing a landing gear
A hydraulic mechanic greasing the landing gear of a transport plane, before the plane leaves the last station on the assembly line at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas
A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach1a...
Title: A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company
A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, ...
Title: A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Nacelle parts for a heavy bomber form the background Abstract/medium: 1 transparency : color.
A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach1a...
Title: A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Nacelle parts for a heavy bomber form the background
A nose wheel and landing gear assembly for a B-25 bomber 1a35313v
Title: A nose wheel and landing gear assembly for a B-25 bomber under construction in a western aircraft plant, North American Aviation, Inc., Calif. A front section of the plane shows in the background. Gener... More
A private of the armored forces does some practice shooting 1a35205v
Title: Good man, good gun: a private of the armored forces does some practice shooting with a 30-calibre Browning machine gun, Fort Knox, Ky. The gun is mounted on a pedestal for anti-aircraft work